American bee journal . each district exercise the rightof collecting the honey from the as far as I know, without success up tothe present. Mr. A. R. Wallace, in his work en-titled The Malaj Archipelago, pub-lished in 1868, mentions bees, honey,and beeswax as met with, especiallyin the great island of Borneo, inCelebes, and in Timor. They are nodoubt common in all, or nearly all theislands of this group, though notspecially mentioned, the principal ob-jects of Mr. Wallaces pursuit havingbeen the birds of paradise and othergorgeously feathered denizens of thatinteresting region. At Maros, in th
American bee journal . each district exercise the rightof collecting the honey from the as far as I know, without success up tothe present. Mr. A. R. Wallace, in his work en-titled The Malaj Archipelago, pub-lished in 1868, mentions bees, honey,and beeswax as met with, especiallyin the great island of Borneo, inCelebes, and in Timor. They are nodoubt common in all, or nearly all theislands of this group, though notspecially mentioned, the principal ob-jects of Mr. Wallaces pursuit havingbeen the birds of paradise and othergorgeously feathered denizens of thatinteresting region. At Maros, in the Celebes islands, henotes, the flies and bees were abun-dant, and of these I daily obtained newand interesting species ; but he doesnot describe the species or varieties ofbees met with. However, when atTimor, he speaks, as we shall seefurther on, of the Apis dorsata, and inthe following extract, the manner iawhich the honey-bee of Borneo is de-scribed, leads to the conclusion that itis the same as at Timor. After de-. The Manner in which Apis Dorsata Build their Combs. branches overhanging their own ter-ritory. These Ijees would appear tobe of the same variety as those foundin Ceylon, but unfortunately no partic-ulars are given as to their size, color,the size of their combs or its separatecells, nor about the separation intodifferent nests or coloniesof the largenumber of combs found in one tree. One of the reporters, Mr. Morgan,Deputy Conservator of Forests in theWynaad, comes to the conclusion that_ only one kind of bee, the Apis indica,is capable of domestication, and thatonly in hilly districts, not on theplains ; but he does not say why, norgive any special description of thisvariety. A very large sort of bee,which they call large cliff bees(building in cliffs and under ledges ofrocks), are represented as so fero-cious in habit, and furnished with suchdeadly stings, as to be dangerous toboth men and beasts coming withintheir neighborhood. Whether thesedangerous insects
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